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23 unusual facts about George Pataki


Albert Rosenblatt

After Governor George Pataki nominated Rosenblatt to serve on the New York Court of Appeals, the State's highest court, he was confirmed by the Senate on December 17, 1998.

Calvin O. Butts

Over the years, Butts has built pragmatic relationships across party lines in the city and state, including with former Governor George Pataki, to turn ADC into an economic engine.

Catskill Park

However, in 1995 a new governor, George Pataki took over, and after some consideration decided to put the project on hold, where it remains to this day, citing financial considerations.

Charles Wesley Parish

Following their trip, Parish also endeavored to introduce his granddaughter to other states' governors, and was able to in five other states, with governors including Mike Huckabee, Bill Richardson and George Pataki.

Dennis Vacco

The combination of Molinari's remarks, a strong national Republican showing, and the win of George Pataki in the governor's race, led to Vacco narrowly defeating Burstein.

Elton Brand

The former Governor of New York, fellow Peekskill native George Pataki, was once asked about being the town's favorite son, and he answered that he was not the favorite but Elton Brand was.

Eugene F. Pigott, Jr.

Judge Pigott was appointed to the court by Republican Governor George Pataki in 2006 for a 14-year term.

Harold S. Koplewicz

In May 2006, New York Governor Pataki and his Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health appointed Koplewicz the Executive Director of the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (NKI).

Henry F. Zwack

Governor George Pataki subsequently appointed him Executive Deputy Commissioner, New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) and later as a Judge on the New York State Court of Claims in December, 2006.

John P. Cahill

John P. Cahill was the Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York Governor George E. Pataki and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan.

Michael McKeon

Prior to joining Mercury, Mr. McKeon served as New York governor George Pataki's Director of Communications, and as the Governor's chief spokesman.

Orin Kramer

He earned a B.A. from Yale College (where he roomed with former New York state governor George Pataki) and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Pace University School of Law

John P. Cahill '85 - Senior Policy Advisor & Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York State Governor George E. Pataki, and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan; former Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Counsel at Chadbourne & Parke

Ralph J. Marino

He was ousted during the Thanksgiving holiday in 1994 by allies of then Governor-elect George Pataki and replaced by Joseph Bruno.

Raymond P. Martinez

Martinez served as New York State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles under Governor George Pataki from December 2000 to December 2005; as Assistant General Counsel to the Long Island (New York) Power Authority; as Special Counsel and Deputy Chief of Staff for the New York State Attorney General; and as an attorney in private practice.

Richard Andrias

She was designated as a Justice for the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department in 1996 by Governor George Pataki.

Richard C. Wesley

In 1997, New York Governor George Pataki selected Wesley as his first appointee to serve as an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, New York's highest court.

RoseMarie Panio

Panio was appointed to the NYS Watershed Protection and Partnership Council by Governor George Pataki, served on the White House Committee on Small Business, and also as Chairperson for the 19th Congressional District’s Senior Task Force.

Shoista Mullojonova

In September 2005, in Forest Hills High School, Shoista sang for an audience who all came to celebrate her 80th birthday, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Governor George Pataki, President Emomalii Rahmon of Tajikistan, and Boris Kandov, President of the Bukharian Jewish Congress of USA and Canada.

Stonetown, County Louth

George Pataki: 53rd governor of New York, ancestral routes can be traced to Stonetown, in a visit in 1999 he planted a tree in the corner of Annaghminnon Rovers GFC gaelic football field to commemorate his visit.

The Levin Institute

The Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce (The Levin Institute) was established by Governor George Pataki and the State of New York, under the auspices of the State University of New York, in memory of Neil D. Levin, Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who perished in the attack upon the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Thomas Sanzillo

As Acting Comptroller, he refused to pay a bill submitted to the Comptroller's office by former Governor George Pataki in his final days in office.

Victoria A. Graffeo

Judge Graffeo was appointed to the court by Republican Governor George Pataki in 2000 for a 14-year term.


Carol Shea-Porter

Shea-Porter supports a clean and renewable energy policy to decrease U.S. reliance on foreign energy sources and agrees with a number of the objectives of financier and oil magnate T. Boone Pickens on these matters including continuance of emissions trading measures, a system already in effect for her constituency in the form of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative begun in 2003 by Republican governor George Pataki of New York.

James M. Catterson

In 2004, he was designated a Justice for the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department in 2004 by Governor George Pataki.

Laureen Oliver

The Golisano/Oliver ticket finished third, behind the Republican ticket of Gov. George Pataki and Judge Mary Donohue and the Democratic ticket of New York City Council Speaker Peter Vallone and Brighton Town Supervisor Sandra Frankel.

Major Deegan Expressway

In the wake of former New York Yankees player Joe DiMaggio's death on March 8, 1999, Governor George Pataki proposed renaming the Deegan Expressway to the "Joe DiMaggio Highway".

Meadowbrook State Parkway

Dignitaries at the honoring ceremony included then-Governor George Pataki, Senator Charles Fuschillo and Levy's widow, Joy Levy.

Norman J. Levy

Dignitaries at the honoring ceremony including then-Governor George Pataki, Senator Charles Fuschillo and Levy's widow, Joy Levy.

Raising the Flag at Ground Zero

The city thought it had possession of the flag after the attack, Rudolph Giuliani and George Pataki signed it, and the flag flew at the New York City Hall, Yankee Stadium, and the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) during its service in the Mideast.

Sam Pitcheralle

He was appointed as Acting Treasurer in 2006 by Governor George Pataki to fill out the remaining months of the term of Christopher Callaghan, who had retired to pursue a bid for New York State Comptroller.

Sean Hanna

His eight-year tenure in the county legislature ended when then-Governor George Pataki made Hanna the Avon-based New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Regional Director for the 11 county area enveloping Rochester the Finger Lakes and Corning/Elmira.

Thomas Kirwan

Kirwan had a reputation as a "reformer" after a 2007 lawsuit where he and Democratic State Senator Liz Krueger joined together to sue Silver, former Governor of New York George Pataki and then Senate Leader Joe Bruno over the infamous legislative dysfunction at the New York State Capitol in Albany, citing disenfranchisement of minority party members of both houses.